Who's who in the novel "Instructions for a Heatwave"

 

The 1976 Heatwave in UK

 Noelia's contribution

> Inews.co.uk : How long was the 1976 heatwave? How the current UK weather compares to the famous summer drought

Only as a curiosity, we attach the temperatures in Malaga in July 1976:

May Meeting: Instructions for a Heatwave by Maggie O'Farrell

 

Source: Wikipedia Meggie O'Farrell

Source: goodreads

Maggie O'Farrell RSL (born 27 May 1972) is a novelist from Northern Ireland. Her acclaimed first novel, After You'd Gone, won the Betty Trask Award, and a later one, The Hand That First Held Mine, the 2010 Costa Novel Award. She has twice been shortlisted since for the Costa Novel Award: for Instructions for a Heatwave in 2014 and This Must Be The Place in 2017. She appeared in the Waterstones 25 Authors for the Future. Her memoir I am, I am, I am: Seventeen Brushes with Death reached the top of the Sunday Times bestseller list. Her novel Hamnet won the Women's Prize for Fiction in 2020, and the fiction prize at the 2020 National Book Critics Circle Awards. Wikipedia

A novel about the family, about what we tell and what we decide not to tell; about the compromises and concessions we make, and about what can happen if we build our lives on half-truths. Ella from the winning author of the Women's Prize for Fiction 2020 for her novel Hamnet. ... Google Books

Review.

> The Guardian: Instructions for a Heatwave by Maggie O'Farrell – review by Viv Groskop

Digital profile about the author. External links

> Author's web page: www.maggieofarrell.com

Youtube

Part 1: Instructions For A Heatwave, Maggie O'Farrell at Waterstones Piccadilly

Part 2: Instructions For A Heatwave, Maggie O'Farrell at Waterstones Piccadilly

The murder weapon: Stromatolites - What are they?

 Antonio de los Santos' contribution

Wikipedia: Stromatolites

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"Stromatolites  (from Ancient Greek στρῶμα (strôma), GEN στρώματος (strṓmatos) 'layer, stratum', and λίθος (líthos) 'rock') are layered sedimentary formations (microbialite) that are created mainly by photosynthetic microorganisms such as cyanobacteria, sulfate-reducing bacteria and proteobacteria. These microorganisms produce adhesive compounds that cement sand and other rocky materials to form mineral "microbial mats". In turn, these mats build up layer by layer, growing gradually over time. A stromatolite may grow to a meter or more. Although they are rare today, fossilized stromatolites provide records of ancient life on Earth."